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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

14:00-15:00 is the only non-meeting productive work time in the day. 9 hrs of doing interviews seems excessive, but what do I know

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Also a little odd that he did 6 interviews in 5 hours. How long are these interviews?

Also, as someone who regularly takes his son to daycare (and leaves him there! he needs to learn to hussle his way back home again, I can't be there to helicopter parent!), good luck getting them up, out the door, through traffic, and back to the office again inside 30 minutes.

This guy is doing what I used to get yelled at all the time when I was filling out a time card - block billing. "One task? 1 hr. One hard task? 1.5 hr. One easy task? 30 min."

Clients hate this shit. Real heads know to always randomize a number 1-9 to put in the last digit, so it looks like you actually put in time from a clock rather than rounding to the nearest mark.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Clients hate this shit. Real heads know to always randomize a number 1-9 to put in the last digit, so it looks like you actually put in time from a clock rather than rounding to the nearest mark.

My agreement with at least one of my client is that I round up to the next 15 minutes. They know to expect fairly round numbers.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago

At my 9-5, our time keeping software doesn't even let you put in anything smaller than a quarter hour.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had multiple clients yell at us for this, back when I worked in a contracting job. It was infuriating that we had to play these stupid games.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I have great clients tbf, I acquired them through my past 9-5s so I knew what I was getting into beforehand

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's bullshit from start to finish. Nobody really does hours like this. There'll always be unexpected stuff, it doesn't matter what the job is. You could be President (with an actual serious schedule) and there would still be odd minutes here and there.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I do the morning routine with the twins each morning and it takes me at least one hour, sometimes one and a half. And our daycare is like 5 minutes away by bike.

My guess is that this dudes wife gets the son ready and this guy drives him over. Which is by the way the only time during this day he sees his kid.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

probably less than 1hr each, likely the ones he was going to "reject" if he is the HR manager, regardless of the qualifications of the candidate.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe he works as talent acquisition

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Founder apparently so could be looking for employees.